I'm making a film about the Illegal Art Exhibit that just finished up here in San Francisco this month.

I'll posting much a lot of my footage from the movie in bits and pieces over the next few weeks.

It is my hope that the finished products (1. a 22 minute television program and 2. a longer, feature-length film) might actually get some television airplay and maybe accepted in some film festivals and things.

To start things off, here's an interview with Laura Splan, who's a local artist here in San Francisco that just got picked up for the San Francisco leg of the show (and will be staying with the show as it moves on to Philadelphia in September.)

Laura created pillows of prescription pills. She's one of the local artists that got picked up by the tour here in San Francisco and her work will be included in the exhibit Here's Laura explaining why she feels she should be able to create art however she wants to.

Rick Prelinger, Members of Paul Harvey Oswald, and Brian Boyce will be introducing a bunch of shorts at 2pm.

Craig Baldwin and Don Joyce will introduce "Gimmie the Mermaid" and "Sonic Outlaws" films at 4pm.

Price: $5 sliding scale. Whatever you can contribute is great -- the money goes to the artists.

Directions and Important Parking Info:
The Roxie is at 3117 16th St., at the corner of Valencia St.

The 16th Street Bart Station is a block from the Theatre. (A very short block.)

All the meters are only an hour in that neighborhood, and in the evening parking's next to impossible on the street, so you'll want to just hit the parking lot inbetween Mission and Valencia and 16th and 17th Street, (in a little alley). It's right next to the theatre, and not too overpriced.

Lots Of Great "Illegal Art" Film and Video Screenings Coming Up Next Week At The Roxie

And they're all being introduced by a collection of all star guests:

This is the:Illegal Art Film & Video Schedule
at Roxie Cinema (3117 16th St., at the corner of Valencia St.)
Tickets available at the door: general, $8; seniors and children, $4.

More info and movies for online viewing or downloading: http://www.illegal-art.org

PROGRAM A
Wednesday, July 23 * 2 pm, 10 pm
Thursday, July 24 10pm

With Introductions by Rick Prelinger, Members of Paul Harvey Oswald, and Brian Boyce (on wed)
and Rick Prelinger, and possibly Jino Choi or Dan Spalding (who did Fellowship of the Ring of Free Trade) on Thursday

In Spin, documentary filmmaker Brian Springer captures the behind-the-scenes maneuverings of politicians and newscasters in the early 1990s. Pat Robertson banters about "homos," Al Gore learns how to avoid abortion questions, George Bush talks to Larry King about halcyon-all presuming they're off camera. Iraq Campaign 1991 transforms network news footage, clips from Star Trek, and sports coverage (all used without permission) into a devastating critique of the media/industrial complex.

Sonic Outlaws is a gleefully anarchic documentary focused on the band Negativland and its travails with copyright and trademark infringment. The film also probes the world of recontexualizing corporate advertising through culture-jamming. Director Craig Baldwin and Don Joyce (of Negativland) will be on hand to introduce the films and answer your questions.

PROGRAM C
Wednesday, July 23 * 6 pm

With an Introduction and Q and A with Lawrence Lessig

Greg Hittelman and Jed Horovitz, Willful Infringement

A new documentary about copyright law featuring a Rolling Stones cover band, Public Enemy, copyright guru Lawrence Lessig, and a couple of clowns. Lessig will be on hand to introduce the film and answer questions afterward.

A series of shorts that appropriate copyrighted works in one way or another: through the use of found footage (Black Thunder, Natural Thing, Removed), unauthorized music (Giant Steps), or corporate imagery (Chain). Plus Todd Haynes' cult classic Superstar. With Barbie dolls as the principal actors, Superstar portrays the life of Karen Carpenter and her battle with anorexia. Haynes never secured the rights to the Carpenters' music he used in the movie, and Richard Carpenter filed an injunction that kept Superstar from public release.

Another set of stellar shorts, headlined by Willful Infringement, a new documentary about copyright law featuring a Rolling Stones cover band, Public Enemy, copyright guru Lawrence Lessig, and a couple of clowns.

When the term is referring to a venue where an upcoming Illegal Art gathering is taking place, of course.

What: Digital Mix: A Special BayFF Celebrating Illegal Art
When: July 25th, 8pm - 2am
Where: Black Box, 1928 Telegraph Avenue Near 19th Street BART
Directions: available here
Cost: $5 Suggested Donation (That means they'll take a dollar if that's all you have and don't not come just because you're broke! Tell them I sent you and I'll work it out later with them -- it's all good ;-)

On July 25th the Electronic Frontier Foundation will host a night of music, art, and conversation to celebrate digital culture. Hosted at the Black Box in downtown Oakland, this special BayFF will bring up-and-coming artists of electronica, digital film, and illegal art together with leaders from the cyber-rights movement.

Lawsuits and legislation have become the weapons of choice for dealing with file-sharing and cultural recycling ("sampling"); come out and discover what all the hype is about. Between laptop music, hip hop, and industrial performances, you will hear from people who are fighting to protect new forms of expression and cultural distribution from the attacks of the entertainment industry. This is an all-ages event.